"But if AI does it all, what's *my* job?"

With all the AI stuff one day you feel useless, another day you feel top of the world with an army of agents building big things that used to take weeks.

And then your brain melts trying to keep track of it all. You own too many domains, are always on-call, and if anyone wants anything you are the person to ask.

Because who else? You built it, you own it, you run it, you never told anyone else how it works. You barely looked at it yourself.

Welcome to the "mental load" thing feminists have been talking about for ~~years~~ decades. Managing the work is harder than being told what to do and executing.

Now scale that up to a CEO: they have that context for hundreds of people and their agents.

That's why we'll always have jobs. There are limits to how much a person can keep track of and do a responsibly good job of. At best you can round-robin between priorities but you can't truly multitask without delegating.

AI is at the level of handing off tasks. It's not true delegation.

You have more hands to do work, sure, but you still have to think and keep track and cary the mental load. You can’t hand it off and say "you own this".

You can't do that with most humans either.

That's always been my point with the Senior Mindset book stuff and being a true senior engineer – be the person who can take ownership of problems and domains. Those will always be in high demand.

Your job is to take mental load off others' plates.

Cheers,
~Swizec